Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

He is born again! I feel him! The Dragon takes his first breath on the slope of Dragonmount! He is coming! He is coming! Light help us! Light help the world! He lies in the snow and cries like the thunder! He burns like the sun!

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be.